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Education Opportunities

Keep Columbus Beautiful (KCB) offers
presentations, activities, partnerships, and teacher workshops that can be used
in a classroom setting or with a group.

Our goal is to introduce in-school educational programs
that develop socially responsible behavior and community pride by engaging
students in service projects as partners with adult area residents and civic
leaders.

END LITTERING IN COLUMBUS THROUGH EDUCATION

PICK IT UP!! is a curriculum-based
litter activity guide available to Columbus City elementary school teachers. The guide includes activities from Keep America Beautiful, Inc. Waste In Place and the state of OHIO Windows on Waste and Super Saver Investigator materials.

Activities help shape social behavior, promote litter prevention and community pride and service.

Activities are interdisciplinary, designed for
integration into school subject areas.

The colorful children’s
story book The Wartville Wizardby
Don Madden is read to third grade students in Columbus City Schools by trained
volunteers (retired teachers, police community liaisons) followed by a
classroom discussion of litter and approved instructional activities.

The Wartville Wizard animated CD Rom version is utilized during the summer in the
PICK IT UP service-learning challenge at City of Columbus Recreation Centers
summer camp programs and the Columbus Metropolitan Library’s Summer reading
program.

The lesson raises
student awareness about litter and social responsibility.

Middle
School (6-8)

DESIGN CHALLENGE "Up Your AlleyTude"

The Design Challenge is a five week process of developing critical
thinking that will design a solution to challenging real-world community issue.
“Up Your AlleyTude” asks students to
bring a solution to the problem of alley litter while learning about the city’s
waste management system.

The Trouble With
Litter

Keep Columbus Beautiful’s interactive presentation that raises middle school students
awareness about litter as an issue

Lesson
shares litter data and teaches the who, what, why, and where of littering

The
presentation explains the “Broken Window Theory” and the impact of litter on
neighborhoods and the environment

Introduced
to Three Words About
Litter…Pick It Up!!, the presentation reinforces students
social responsibility for the care of our neighborhoods

High School

Columbus
City High Schools agree to a two-year commitment to build pride keep their
school inside and campus grounds and surrounding neighborhood litter-free. An
official City sign is put in the public right of way. The Columbus City High
Schools receive gloves, litter grabbers, vests, trash containers, promotional
yard signs, and promotional PICK IT UP buttons.

Elementary,
Middle and High School (PreK-12)

School Community Service Learning Day

Students clean-up litter on the school grounds and surrounding
neighborhood

Waste Reduction and
Recycling

Designed
with assistance from education advisors and community leaders

Lessons
on litter prevention, waste reduction, recycling, composting, waste-to-energy
and landfills are easily integrated into school subject areas such as science,
social studies, language arts, mathematics, art, and music

Students acquire
knowledge, information, and skills to make informed and responsible decisions